Six police hurt in Jerusalem riots

Monday, June 28, 2010 |
Israel Today Staff

Palestinian Arabs hurled stones and firebombs during a riot in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday lightly injuring six police officers and four private security guards stationed at Jewish-owned properties in the area.

Many of the rioters were lightly hurt by inhaling tear gas used by the police to disperse the mob.

Police officials characterized the incident as a significant upswing in local violence in Silwan, an Arab-dominated neighborhood just south of Jerusalem's current Old City. Silwan is known to Jews as the City of David, and comprises the entirety of what was Jerusalem at the time of the biblical king.